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524189

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how and why the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) joined the Metropolitan Police in announcing that retired police sergeant Gurpal Virdi was charged with misconduct in public office and with indecent assault on a person under 16 years; what publicity the CPS recorded as resulting at the time; when the memorandum of a conviction proved 1 April 1987 for offences on 7 November 1986 of a defendant born on 5 September 1970 with informant or complainant recorded as PC Markwick came to the attention of the CPS; what steps were taken to put right the effect of the wrong statement; when those steps were taken; and what the results of those steps were.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>A press release was issued by the Metropolitan Police Service which stated that the complainant was under 16. The CPS was not a party to this release and did not issue any other release. The CPS does not retain records of publicity resulting at the time.</p><p> </p><p>When the case was reviewed in 2014 for charging, the complainant and the witness clearly stated that the complainant had been 15 when the incident took place in 1986.<del class="ministerial"> In addition Mr Virdi also said in interview that the complainant had been 15 at the time of the incident.</del> The police summary stated that the complainant was 15. However the complainant’s date of birth and the date of his arrest were known and this mistake should not have been made.</p><p> </p><p>The CPS was supplied with the memorandum of conviction referred to on 17 September 2014.<del class="ministerial">The indictment was formally amended thereafter.</del></p><p> </p><p>No steps were taken to publicise the fact that the charge was later amended in open court to remove the assertion that the complainant was under 16.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/06/2016 13:53:54 question first ministerially corrected 24/06/2016 09:44:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 3723 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

524190

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Gurpal Virdi
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, what the cost is to the Crown Prosecution Service of obtaining a transcript of the Southwark Crown Court trial of charges against Gurpal Virdi.
	tabling member constituency	Worthing West
	tabling member printed	Sir Peter Bottomley
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40181
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has requested an estimate of the cost of obtaining a transcript and has been informed that it will take 10 days for this to be supplied. Once the estimate is received the CPS will write to the Honorable Member to inform him of the figure.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 14/06/2016 13:52:08 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	117 label Biography information for Sir Peter Bottomley

524196

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government: Outages
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contingency plans the Cabinet Office has in place in the event of a high-volume of users causing a slow-down or failure of the gov.uk website.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40105
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Since its launch in October 2012, GOV.UK has handled over 2.6 billion visits. The site needs to continue operating during major events. The <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website has been designed to handle issues and failures in a way which would not impact the public. We have robust incident management processes in place and regularly run disaster recovery simulations to test our response to any outages.</p><p>When outages do occur, we investigate and learn lessons on how to mitigate them in future.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 40091 question first answered 14/06/2016 08:54:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524197

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the socio-demographic characteristics of users visiting the gov.uk website.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>GOV.UK does not collect socio-demographic data of users.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/06/2016 08:58:10 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524198

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the customer satisfaction ratings were for the gov.uk website related to (a) content accuracy, (b) ability to find information, (c) proportion of users who found the website search tool good or very good and (d) proportion of users who got everything or most of what they wanted when visiting the website since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40094
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>Over 100,000 people have taken user satisfaction surveys on the <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website since 2013. The most recent information is as follows;</p><p>On content accuracy, 69.5% they agreed or strongly responded that they “Trust the information on <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>&quot;.</p><p>On the ability to find information, in 2016 52% responded that they agreed or strongly agreed that <a href="http://h/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> was “easy to use”, up from 42% in 2015</p><p>On the question of the proportion of users who got everything or most of what they wanted when visiting the website, in 2016 46% responded that they agreed or strongly agreed with this statement up from 36% in 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/06/2016 07:43:29 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock previous answer version 3884 answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524199

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government: Outages
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what contingency plans his Department has in place in the event of a failure of all or part of the gov.uk website.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40091
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Since its launch in October 2012, GOV.UK has handled over 2.6 billion visits. The site needs to continue operating during major events. The <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> website has been designed to handle issues and failures in a way which would not impact the public. We have robust incident management processes in place and regularly run disaster recovery simulations to test our response to any outages.</p><p>When outages do occur, we investigate and learn lessons on how to mitigate them in future.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock grouped question UIN 40105 question first answered 14/06/2016 08:54:28 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524200

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Electronic Government
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the annual running cost of the gov.uk website was in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40092
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The annual running cost of the GOV.UK website between financial year 2012/13 and 2014/15 is available online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/central-government-websites" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/central-government-websites</a>.</p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 14/06/2016 09:01:46 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

524201

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that those non-UK citizens who are not eligible to vote are not able to vote in the EU referendum.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40157
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40158 40169 40170 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

524202

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	UK Membership of EU: Referendums
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will request that the Electoral Commission investigate the extent to which the electoral roll prepared for the EU referendum on 23 June 2016 contains citizens of EU countries who are not eligible to vote.
	tabling member constituency	Shrewsbury and Atcham
	tabling member printed	Daniel Kawczynski
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40158
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The EU referendum will be overseen by the Chief Counting Officer, chair of the Electoral Commission, who is responsible for making sure the referendum is held in accordance with the legislation governing the conduct of the poll. The Electoral Commission has issued a statement setting out the actions that have been taken to address an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales that meant that some non-eligible EU citizens had mistakenly received poll cards and, in some instances, postal votes. The Commission explains that the software provider has resolved the issue and none of the affected electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on the 23 June. Any incorrectly issued postal votes will be cancelled.</p> answering member constituency Weston-super-Mare answering member printed John Penrose grouped question UIN 40157 40169 40170 question first answered 14/06/2016 16:02:13 answering member 1584 label Biography information for John Penrose
	tabling member	1566 label Biography information for Daniel Kawczynski

524203

	registered interest
	date	09/06/2016
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Proof of Identity: Internet
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the proportion of people aged (a) 16 to 24, (b) 25 to 44, (c) 45 to 54, (d) 55 to 64, (e) 65 to 74 and (f) 75 years and older who have the (i) evidence and (ii) technology needed to verify their identity online.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	40125
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2016 answer text <p>We do not differentiate between ownership of technology and evidence in our assessments of who can use <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify.</p><p><a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify works for 90% of working adults in the UK, which is the main user group for most of the services currently using <a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a> Verify. Coverage is lower amongst very young people and older people - we continue to improve coverage for those age groups.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency West Suffolk answering member printed Matthew Hancock question first answered 15/06/2016 09:05:24 answering member 4070 label Biography information for Matt Hancock
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh